Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...streets; their families gathered around the bulletin board where the times were posted (almost 20 runners from Cambridge finished the race in less than three-and-a-half hours); the police had to escort away pedestrians who simply refused to move. One group of students roared in triumphant cheer the Notre Dame fight song. Families set up picnic lunches on the sidewalk outside Lord and Taylor to catch the sunlight. Other spectators waited along the finish line to cheer on the marathoners for more than three hours after Bill Rodgers, the winner, came...
...Crimson never gave the 100-strong crowd of UNH supporters anything to cheer about as they jumped to an early lead and then steadily widened the margin during the rest of the game...
...afternoon's biggest cheer came moments later, when Fred Lynn launched his first home run of the year over the centerfield wall, giving Boston a 3-1 lead and Fenway fans their first (of many, to be sure) roundtripper of the short campaign...
...playing an essentially shy, sweet woman. Indeed that is pretty much the way of this film. It tugs gently at one's sleeve. There is not a more satisfactory moment to be seen now on any screen than Hacklin's reunion with his children. One does not cheer, but one leaves the theater feeling just fine...
...only because of widespread ageism, Ronald Reagan's victories in the South and elsewhere should spark a brief moment of nonpartisan cheer among the nation's senior citizens. After all, the 69-year-old candidate did triumph at least briefly over the suspicion that anybody past middle age is a candidate for nothing but the pasture. To be sure, the issue of Reagan's age is not typical. It does make sense for voters to take a cold, actuarial look at anybody seeking the White House. But the more prevalent American way of judging the elderly...